No wonder Rishi Sunak goes private when GPs vote to go home at 5pm

2022-11-26

PLATELL’S PEOPLE: No wonder Rishi Sunak goes private when GPs vote to go home at 5pm

We already face chaos because of strikes planned by rail workers, nurses, civil servants, teachers and postmen.

Now, to cap it all, we’re told GPs are demanding they limit their hours to nine to five because longer days discriminate against those with families.

No matter that it is ordinary British families who won’t be able to see their doctor. Nor that the GPs working to rule are already on an average £111,900 salary. Nor that the average wait to see your GP is two weeks.

They now want to cut their hours from the already inadequate 8am to 6.30pm at a time when, in the worst performing surgeries, only one in eight patients is seen face-to-face.

Inevitably, their toxic demands are supported by the hand-wringing Left who cry it’s for the safety of patients. In what world could GPs working fewer hours and seeing fewer patients improve safety for the sick?

Perhaps, as they tidy their desks of an early evening, doctors will console themselves with the thought that they can always pack their charges off to wait 12 hours in A&E.

We already face chaos because of strikes planned by rail workers, nurses, civil servants, teachers and postmen. Now, to cap it all, we’re told GPs are demanding they limit their hours to nine to five because longer days discriminate against those with families

Yes, many GPs have a big workload. Yet surgeries are seeing fewer patients than they were pre-Covid.

The real problem is that our sacred NHS is systemically broken. It doesn’t require extra billions but root-and-branch reform that puts patients, not workers, first. Work-shy GPs will worsen the crisis.

But with the Left in full cry there really is no hope of reform. This week, the Guardian newspaper gleefully hunted down Rishi Sunak’s private doctor to somehow shame the PM. How pathetic.

Why should any of the eight million people who choose to go private be vilified when they ease the burden on the NHS? As Margaret Thatcher pointed out in 1987, when taunted over her private health insurance, she and millions of others were paying their dues to the NHS even though they weren’t adding to the queue for treatment.

And given that GPs seem intent on making the chance of getting an NHS appointment all but impossible, it would be irresponsible of Rishi not to have a private doctor.

Who wants a poorly PM waiting weeks for a diagnosis or a prescription when he has vital tasks to perform — like stopping union bigots holding the country to ransom.

Migrant muddle

Keir Starmer vows to be tough on migration, having campaigned to reintroduce EU freedom of movement and insisting Labour should ‘welcome migrants not scapegoat them’.

What brass neck.

The reason we now have net 500,000 newcomers is Tony Blair’s open-door policy led to the biggest influx since World War II. And the reason half a million people emigrated last year is probably the very thought of a Labour government.

Kate wears the frown jewels

The new Princess of Wales wore the former Princess of Wales’s lover’s knot tiara, pearl earrings and pearl bracelet to a State Banquet.

And Kate has been seen in her late mother-in-law’s Collingwood pearl earrings, pearl choker and more besides.

Am I the only one thinking it’s getting a bit creepy seeing Kate in the jewels that brought Diana nothing but misery?

The new Princess of Wales wore the former Princess of Wales’s lover’s knot tiara, pearl earrings and pearl bracelet to a State Banquet

Am I the only one thinking it’s getting a bit creepy seeing Kate in the jewels that brought Diana nothing but misery?

A soldier posts pictures of water pouring through the ceiling of his MoD home, prompting outrage from Army officer Major John Buckley that more than a quarter of personnel live in squalor. Around 39,000 servicemen and women live in homes suffering from ‘damp, mould and lack of heating’ — while asylum seekers live in four-star hotels.

Meghan likened ‘rejoicing’ over her marriage to joy felt when Nelson Mandela left prison. Crikey! She probably thinks people clamoured for her to meet South Africa’s new leader Cyril Ramaphosa on his UK visit. We just ‘rejoiced’ she isn’t here.

Oti’s too good for BGT

Favourite to replace David Walliams on Britain’s Got Talent — he’s said to be leaving after his horrible remarks about contestants — is Oti Mabuse. Don’t do it Oti! Years sitting next to vacuous clothes horse Amanda Holden would feel like a life sentence. And a judges panel of three women plus Simon Cowell, bitchiest of them all, would be purgatory.

Favourite to replace David Walliams on Britain’s Got Talent — he’s said to be leaving after his horrible remarks about contestants — is Oti Mabuse

Private firms issued 2.7 million parking fines between April and June, raking in £1 billion annually and that’s not counting council parking officers. Yet we must not tar them all with the same brush. My local traffic warden warns us if our car is about to be ticketed. We greet each other by name, but I can’t disclose his — or the council would sack him.

Woke jungle warfare

What nonsense! ITV’s Celebrity Jungle is accused of being racist because Charlene White and Scarlette Douglas were first to be kicked out, followed later by Babatunde Aleshe.

What about 59-year-old Sue Cleaver? She’s gone, swiftly followed by Boy George, while only one woman, Jill Scott, remains. So it must follow that the show isn’t just racist, misogynistic and ageist, but also guilty of homophobia. And if Matt Hancock leaves, it’ll be anti-Tory.

What nonsense! ITV’s Celebrity Jungle is accused of being racist because Charlene White and Scarlette Douglas were first to be kicked out, followed later by Babatunde Aleshe

The real intrigue in the jungle is the mystery of Boy George. Why was he so boring, why can’t he sing any more — and why is he the only I’m A Celebrity contestant who left the jungle fatter than he arrived?

World Cup watch

In an ad for his TV series Save Our Squad, David Beckham says all he ever wanted was to ‘put something back into football’. Since agreeing £150 million for a ten-year deal to promote Qatar, it looks like all he’s ever done is put a wodge of cash in his pocket.
There’s a bitter irony in England stars demanding to wear the rainbow armband to support persecuted LGBT people in Qatar, when not one of our 557 Premier League players has felt able to come out as gay. Perhaps they should be addressing the homophobia in our own beautiful game before lecturing others.
England captain Harry Kane wears a jaw-dropping £520,000 Rolex rainbow watch in a private protest. Hardly any sacrifice for a man who earns £200,000 a week playing for Spurs.

Have a sherry little Christmas

Can it be true that decorating the Christmas tree is the third happiest festive moment for us — after being with family and giving gifts?

What, hours in the attic trying to find the fairy lights, unravelling them only to realise half don’t work, and discovering decorations smashed as you forgot to bubble wrap them?

Surely the festive joy that should have been top — though it was rated behind even soggy sprouts — is going to the pub for a quick drink before the turkey?

Research reveals the type of wine we choose reflects our personalities. Extroverts love champagne, agreeable folk cabernet, the emotionally stable fancy a shiraz.

Does the fact that I love imbibing all of these delicious drinks mean I have a multiple personality disorder — or do I just drink too much?

My Ted was delighted 26-year-old puss Flossie — a half-blind, deaf and frankly bit tatty tortoiseshell — got into Guinness World Records as the world’s oldest cat. Like him, she was abandoned and taken in. Proof, says Ted, of the superiority of the Great British mixed breed, known as moggies.

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